What worries me is that SUN will not give HotSpot for free so I don't
know how the licensing will be worked out for the Blackdown
organisation. I also read an article where the say that SUN was the last
major company to endorse Linux I guess that they are scare of Linux and
want to protect their beloved Solaris. I'm also a bit tired of SUN
marketing "Write Once Run Anywhere". I think that again marketing and
technology are going seperate ways. SUN is not playing it fare. On one
hand they want to protect their OS and on the other hand they want to
domintate the world with Java but their playing it safe not to disturb
their OS conterpart that why all new releases of the JDK are for
Solaris-Sparc, Solaris-Intel and Windows. In my opinion they should drop
Solaris-Intel and replace it with Linux, since nobody is using the damn
thing. They also want to fight the dominance of the Windows platform but
they don't want to support Linux directly wich right now is the biggest
competitor to Windows. Maybe I'm complaining to much but hey six months
after everybody else we have JDK1.2 in beta and now all the other API's
are comming maybe were in a better position then the Mac-OS.
Thanks
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Jean-Pierre Dubé
Infocom enr.
Developpement de logiciel
Software development
Nelson Minar wrote:
>
> >About HotSpot: I really wouldn't know. Would like to see it myself
> >too. Linux allways comes last (JDK 1.2, RDMBS's etc), but things are
> >changing I guess... for the good.
>
> Does anyone with knowledge of Sun politics know how we can effectively
> lobby for more support for Java on Linux? I really don't understand
> what's going on at Sun. The official word is they are "supporting"
> Linux, but the results they've delievered have been less than
> exciting. No offense, Blackdown guys! You're doing great. But have you
> really gotten any help from Sun?
>
> The part I don't understand is every single person at Sun I've ever
> talked to is enthusiastic about supporting Linux. There's a good
> technical case to make for it now, too - Java is moving towards the
> embedded systems market (notably, through Jini), and Linux is better
> suited for this application than pretty much any other mainstream OS.
> Is there some internal politics going on that is making Linux be
> second fiddle to Windows?
>
> Anyway, if anyone with some understanding of Sun is interested in
> working on putting together some effective activism, please contact
> me. Maybe we can make something happen.
>
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